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LEADERSHIP LINK: No more giant apps—a browser is all you need
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By Aaron Linne   
Sunday, June 10, 2012

In my bookshelf sits a copy of the B&H Publishing Group classic trade book from 1991, Help, There’s a Computer in My Church! Suprisingly, I have yet to be able to convince our leadership team to convert it into ePub.

 
LEADERSHIP LINK: Does your church conduct an annual audit?
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By Jim White   
Sunday, June 10, 2012

For most of us the term “audit” calls to mind the potential of being notified by the IRS that our income tax returns will be scrutinized by their examiners. But the term simply means to examine or evaluate. Originally it meant to listen (from auditory).

 
TRENDING: The stuck and broken?
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By John Chandler   
Saturday, June 09, 2012

Recently, I was part of a conversation with 10 pastors discussing discipleship. All agreed that their churches were producing exactly what they were engineered to produce: attenders. As pastors wrestled with how to lead their congregations toward more intentional disciple-making, ideas flew around the room.

 
LEADERSHIP LINK: What a herd of water buffalo can teach the church
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By Jim White   
Friday, May 25, 2012

Two weekends ago I had the delightful experience of leading a deacons’ retreat for Cradock Baptist Church. Taking a break from PowerPoint presentations we looked to the internet for inspiration and found it on YouTube.

 
OPINION: Yes, and!
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By Lisa Cole Smith   
Friday, May 25, 2012

Sometimes I wish I had actors' improvisational skills, especially in conversations with non-Christians about Jesus. It’s easy to share about my faith—how I see God at work in the world, how Jesus transforms my life. But it has always been difficult to have “the evangelism talk” with people.

 
VITAL SIGNS: So, you want to be a minister?
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By Bill Wilson   
Friday, May 25, 2012

Recently, our son graduated from divinity school. The world he faces is very different from the one I entered in 1980. It is rapidly changing and difficult to navigate. When I think about my advice to him at the beginning of his life in ministry, it goes something like this:

 
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By Robert Dilday   
Friday, May 25, 2012
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TRENDING: Worship worship
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By John Chandler   
Friday, May 25, 2012

Geoff Surratt of Seacoast Church in South Carolina recently wrote on “The Five Scariest Trends that Could Shipwreck the Church.” By far, his most interesting “Scary Trend” was the experience of worship in and of itself. Surratt raises a brow about the growing worship of the art of worship.

 
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MICHAEL PARNELL
Two films portray search for identity




LISA COLE SMITH
Time for a vibrant imagination




JIM WHITE
The nation's mean-spirited discourse seeps into churches



ALEX GALLIMORE
A connecting tool turns divisive


BILL WILSON
A desperate need

WINN COLLIER
Two recommendations

FRED ANDERSON
Worth the conversation

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• Constantine's cross: Should Christians retain a foothold in the emperor's palace? | Economist, 5/21

• Freedom of religion scarce in Iran, China, says State Department | Washington Times, 5/20

• Church of Scotland votes to allow gay ministers | Guardian, 5/20

• Evangelical weakness in gay Boy Scouts debate could hurt GOP | Washington Times, 5/20

• Supreme Court will hear church-state case over prayers at public meetings | Washington Post, 5/20

• Billy Graham isn't finished preaching yet | Raleigh News & Observer, 5/20

• A British strand of Islam is emerging as more people become converts | Economist, 5/18

• Texas legislature passes 'Merry Christmas bill' aimed at giving public schools more leeway to observe traditional winter celebrations | Texas Tribune, 5/17

• Seminary graduates not always ministering from the pulpit | Washington Post, 5/17

• Church of Scotland revises controversial Israel report | BBC, 5/17

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